Chaucer’s Black Knight.

Author / Editor
Schoenbaum, Samuel.

Title
Chaucer’s Black Knight.

Published
Modern Language Notes 68, no. 2 (1953): 121-22.

Description
Resists the emendatory tendency to adjust the Black Knight's age from 24 to 29 in order to align it with the age of John of Gaunt when Blanche died, suggesting that the poem is universal not "merely occasional."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Manuscripts and Textual Studies